When Kelsey learned she was pregnant as a 21-year-old business major, her pro-life stance was put to the test. Raised in a Catholic family, she had always been pro-life and would never have considered an abortion. But now that she was pregnant and facing pressure from her boyfriend to resort to abortion, her convictions weren’t nearly as powerful as the anxiety all around her.
If you’ve heard people talk about early pregnancy as “just a cluster of cells,” you’re not alone. That phrase shows up online, in conversations, and sometimes even in medical settings.
If you’re staring at a positive pregnancy test and your stomach drops, it’s normal for you to think:
“I just need this to go away.”
The risks associated with abortion remained elevated even after controlling for prior mental health, age, and poverty. But among women with prior mental health issues, psychiatric hospitalization was nine times more likely for those who had abortions. In contrast, among women without prior mental health issues, abortion was linked to only a 50% increased risk of psychiatric hospitalization.
The study from the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) found that over 60% of women who had an abortion report a high level of external pressure to abort from one or more source. The study also found that these same women report higher levels of subsequent mental health and quality of life issues.
In a recent interview, actress Jennifer Lawrence praised her positive experience with motherhood, despite how frequently she has advocated in favor of abortion.
Throughout a woman’s pregnancy, her baby undergoes many stages of development in the womb before being born, and among these milestones which indicate life is the fetal heartbeat. Through the use of ultrasounds, modern science can detect the waves of the baby’s heartbeat as early as three weeks after fertilization.
Each year, about 700,000 aborted children’s remains enter the water systems, and water treatment plants are not designed to handle medical waste.
The abortion pill is often described as a “safe and effective way to end an early pregnancy,” at least according to Planned Parenthood. But is it? Recently, the Ethics and Public Policy Center released a study that analyzed insurance data codes for over 865,000 cases in which women took mifepristone (the abortion pill) and found that “serious adverse events” for the drug occurred at a rate approximately 22 times higher than the rate reported on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) label for the drug.
A new, first-of-its-kind study asserts that serious adverse events from mifepristone, the first drug in the abortion pill regimen, occur at a rate approximately 22 times higher than the rate reported on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) label for the drug.